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This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?  Auction History Result Lot #: #001 GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN insert movie poster '42 Lon Chaney Jr.!  Date Sold 12/18/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 8 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36") (Learn More) The Ghost of Frankenstein, the 1942 Erle C. Kenton Universal monster horror thriller sequel ("New Thrills as the monster stalks again!"; "Original Story, Eric Taylor"; the fourth Universal Frankenstein movie after the three 1930s classics; in this entry, Bela Lugosi as Ygor resurrects the Frankenstein monster and takes him to the doctor's son and they must find a new brain!) starring Cedric Hardwicke (billed as "Sir Cedric Hardwicke"; as Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein), Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill (as Doctor Bohmer), Bela Lugosi (as Ygor), Evelyn Ankers (as Elsa Frankenstein), Lon Chaney Jr. (as the Frankenstein monster), Holmes Herbert, and Janet Ann Gallow NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this insert (and four others that we are offering in separate eBay auctions) has been dry-mounted on to a heavy board backing. This was done over 25 years ago by a framer. Many collectors look down on dry-mounting posters, primarily because of the fear that the dry-mount material will harm the poster in some way, and some collectors do not like dry-mounting because it makes the poster harder to send, because it needs to be sent in a large flat package. These five inserts offer ample evidence that the fear of damage is either completely unfounded, or greatly overstated! The posters show no signs of having changed in appearance from when they were first dry-mounted decades ago. I don’t know if 20 or 50 years from now that will still be true, but I can't see any reason why it should not be true. Of course, if one wanted to, one could have the inserts removed from the backing board. It needs to be done by a professional restorer, but it is far easier to remove an insert from a backing board than a one-sheet, as the heavier paper stock of the insert means far less chance that the surface of the poster could be damaged during the removal process. I think a person would be silly to not bid on one of these five posters because they were dry-mounted, but please do not bid on them if you could not accept their being dry-mounted, or are not willing to pay to have them removed from the dry-mounting. Condition: very good. the poster was dry-mounted to a board ; there are pinholes in the corners and pinholes in the center of the bottom border; there are tiny areas of surface paper loss in the top and bottom foldlines; there is a 1" tear in the upper part of the left border (near the beginning of the title); there are light smudges in the center of the title area; there are creases near the center of the bottom foldline; there are smudges in the bottom credits area; sometime after the poster was dry-mounted, the bottom right corner was bumped and there are small creases in the bottom right corner of both the poster and the backing board. Other than the above, which are basically minor defects, the poster is in quite nice condition. I would think almost any collector would be quite happy to display it exactly as it is, although of course a professional restorer could remove it from the backing board, repair the minor defects, and the poster would look even better! Learn More about condition grades 
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